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H-Net's Network on the history of childhood and youth.

H-Childhood is an edited network focused on the history of childhood and youth. Subscriptions to H-Childhood are free. The H-Childhood network is co-sponsored by the Society for the History of Children and Youth(SHCY) and H-Net.

After a year's absence the Centre for the History of Childhood is holding its traditional annual colloquium at the end of Trinity Term.

This year it takes place on Saturday 4 July in Magdalen on the theme of juvenile delinquency around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. I look forward to seeing many of you there and renewing old friendships.

The SHCY Outreach Committee is accepting proposals for possible sessions at the next American Historical Association conference (to be held in Atlanta, GA, Jan. 7-10, 2016). As an AHA Affiliate, SHCY is able to sponsor sessions at the organization's annual conference.

"CHC Ep9: The Challenges of Childhood History" includes keynote addresses by Siȃn Pooley (fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford) and Hannah Newton (lecturer at the University of Reading) delivered at "Challenges of the History of Childhood" hosted by Queen Mary University of London, January 16, 2015.

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the publication of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain.

Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girlhood. She argues that the construction of black girlhood in Chicago between 1910 and 1940 reflected the black community's anxieties about urbanization and its meaning for racial progress, as well as responses to major events and social crises.

Call for Papers: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION. An Annual Conference of the History of Education Society (UK) will be held at Liverpool Hope University, 20th-22nd November 2015